WASHINGTON -- After skirting the controversy for weeks, President ["Present"] is weighing in forcefully on the mosque near ground zero, saying a nation built on religious freedom must allow it.
"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," ["Present"] told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
Religious freedom IS NOT THE POINT, which he obviously knows.
The point is (actually, there is more than one point) that building that Islamofascist abomination so close to Ground Zero is a horrible slap in the face insult to not only the families of those who died on 9/11, but the entire United States. The very name they are using - Cordoba - symbolizes conquest and triumph, which is being shoved down our throats. As was often the case in past history, when Muslims conquered a land, they would demolish any Christian Churches and Jewish Temples, and erect a mosque on the foundations of those demolished buildings. That is the very thing they are attempting to do here, and IT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!
Hopefully, the unions in New York City will refuse to do any work at all on this Islamofascist abomination. New York is a union town. Nothing happens unless a union says it will, and for once, I am pulling for the unions in New York to stand up to this and say a loud and resounding NO!.
